Comments on: Recipe for disaster

By: Well the Recipe Said Eight Cups . . . - srar dot net

Well the Recipe Said Eight Cups . . . - srar dot net — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:08:05 +0000

[...] printed a recipe for Stuffed Chicken. However, instead of calling for 1/8 of a cup, the paper accidentally printed eight cups. I can’t imagine making a recipe with eight cups of onions, but I’m sure that some new [...]

By: CapitalCat

CapitalCat — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:36:53 +0000

Reminds me of a Globe and Mail correction from about 25 years ago:

“Yesterday’s recipe for triffle should have said add 4-8 ounces of sherry, not 48.”

That one was so good CP wrote a story about it.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:37:44 +0000

That’s almost as bad, though: very few home cooks own a 1/8 cup dry measure, and most liquid measuring cups don’t have measuring marks below 1/4 cup.

They should have said two tablespoons.